January 27, 2022

Dal Yong Jin [Simon Fraser University]: Transnational Korean Popular Culture in the Korean Wave Tradition: From K-film’s and K-pop’s Perspectives

Abstract In the early 21st century, Korean popular culture, including Korean cinema and K-pop, have continued to expand their global reach. Even during the COVID-19 era, […]
January 27, 2022

Alessandro Jedlowski [Sciences Po Bordeaux]: Disrupting Pan-Africanism: New Technologies and the Fragmentation of Nigerian Film Circulation Across Africa and the Diaspora

Abstract The emergence and tremendous success of Nollywood throughout the 1990s made scholars suggest that a new form of pan-Africanism had emerged, based on the transnational […]